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A woman and her two children who were wanted for the murder of her husband in Washington were arrested in northwestern Arizona, according to to the information offered by the authorities.
United States Marshals Service officials in Flagtaff confirmed that Brenda Rasmussen, Danny Jones and Andrew Jones were arrested in Mohave County and jailed pending extradition.
Likewise, they reported that the three were suspects in the death of Jerry Rasmussen, in Stevens Washington County , last September.
The man was shot in the head and was later buried under a shed, according to authorities , who said the woman initially reported her husband missing.
Rasmussen initially told officials “ that her husband, Jerry Rasmussen , had left the residence several weeks before and nothing had been heard from him“.
In addition, explained that the two had been “arguing recently” and that the husband of she “was known to go away and be absent for extended periods in the past “.
After his testimony, the police began to communicate with the relatives of the man who lived outside the area and the more information they gathered, the more they suspected the sequence of events that the woman related.
After a while, in an investigation by the County Sheriff’s Office from Stevens, at the family home, the corpse-sniffing dogs became aware of the smell from under a shed that appeared to be recently built.
After a month, investigators returned to the house with a bulldozer to search under the shed. After moving it and breaking the concrete, they found a layer of aluminum foil followed by a layer of plastic wrap, where the remains of the murdered man were .
By that time, her wife and two children had fled Washington state and warrants were issued for her arrest.
The Marshals Service received information at the end of January that the suspects They were probably hiding in Mohave County and were eventually arrested.
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